Is+the+Death+Penalty+painful?


 * Is the Death Penalty Painful?**

There are 5 types of execution for the death penalty and they are Lethal Injection, Electrocution, Lethal Gas, Firing Squad, and Hanging.

According to [|Dr. Brunner] ,an anesthesia professor at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, the injection can be painful if the administer isn't highly trained or the dosage of all the mixes isn't right. He said," That if the doses aren't what it should be it could become like a gel and gooey form and then it could clog up the needle." When that happens the medication they use to put the patients to sleep can wear off and the final drug potassium chloride stops the heart. It would be painful only if they were awake because it causes a burning through the insides.

[|Firing Squads] usually consists of 3-6 people at close range firing pistols at the convicted and if that doesn't work than the person in charge of the execution takes gives the final shot to the head. On a scale of 1-10 that is painful.

[|Hanging] is the earliest known way of execution the convicted stands on a platform with a rope around their neck and than the platform door drops and so do they snapping their neck instantly. Hanging by a short drop is very painful because its not enough to snap the neck so they sufficate.

[|Lethal Gas]is a chair with restraints inside a steel chamber in which lethal gas enters the chamber through a vent and knocks them out then sufficates them. This method is not painful since they are already knocked out.

[|Electrocution] is very painful it sends a high intensity electric jolt throught the body over and over again until the convicted has passed it can also leave burns to some of the body parts.